Time

By: Prem Prasad Sigdel

“I am going sir” one of the teachers said to me. Rather than telling him goodbye, I looked towards the watch which was hanging towards the right side of the office room. He said “no need to look at the watch”. It was already 3.00 pm and the teachers could leave after that.

I smiled turning towards the teacher realizing my mistake and his understanding towards me. It has already time so he has tested me. I never speak unnecessary things to the teachers. Once rule is made known to the teachers, they should follow it. And it is also not so good habit to tease after them all the time. I have just supervised their work and take out the points. I don’t tell anything to them at the spot. I call them in the office room and make them aware about the rules so that they could be treated well.

Though I didn’t tell him in words, he would realize the matter that he had already pointed my mistake. I felt little bit ashamed that he has known already. I also felt proud that he has known me well since he has been working with us for two years. He is used to me. I think that the gesture is much more important than the words. If I have pronounced the words it may have negative consequence. After all he has known it.

I thought that time is time so we have to follow it any way. Time is much valuable to us as it has been limited. I realized the importance of time when the teacher has commented me. Though I have thought that I understood the importance of time, he had already indicated me. Time is the matter that determines our success and failure. We should follow time to be successful in our life. if we can’t we will lose everything in our life. If we can understand the value of time we don’t have problem in our life or we can lessen the problem what we have faced.

Time is time so that we should do work on time. If we don’t respect time, we are going to damage our life. I teach a poem by W.B.Yeats in class 12. It says that time is the greatest force in our life. It can also change young man to old man. The poet has lamented that the time has changed him from young man to old man. So he wanted to ‘spit’ on the face of time. People don’t value the time though it is an essential factor that guides us in every step of our life.

People say that time is the greatest healer of all sorts of sorrows, diseases, incidents etc. I heard it, may be 2 days before, at that time I just heard it from one of the persons. I didn’t care at that time rather I took it as a colloquialism. Today, I realize that time is our duty and it is moving us in every moment. So I must follow time neither it would drift me away. Why do I look at the watch? It is ticking continuously. Till the time I think about time, my time is fleeting.

I should go home and do the work what comes in front of me as time has guided me. I must hold the sense of time as I can’t stop it. We should respect time and, then time can help us. If we utilize time, it can also help us in all the steps of life.